The following podcast was recorded during a one day workshop titled “Integrating the Shadow: Hiding and Seeking on the Spiritual Path” held on October 30, 2011 at the New York Open Center. This workshop ran from 10AM to 5:30PM and the podcast episodes will be published over the next few weeks in 1-hour (approximate) installments. →

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New York Open Center from 10:00 AM to 5:30 PM on Sunday October 30, 2011 This one day workshop titled “Integrating the Shadow: Hiding and Seeking on the Spiritual Path” will be held at New York Open Center, 22 E. 30th St., NY, NY 10016 To register: http://www.opencenter.org/integrating-the-shadow-hiding-and-seeking-on-the-spiritual-path/ For many seekers, the spiritual path is →

This is the full, extended version (42:12 mm:ss) of Abdi’s talk and meditation held at the Broome Street / Sri Ganesha Temple in NYC on September 19, 2011. In email or via RSS, you may use the following link to access/download the podcast directly to your computer (warning: approximately 19.4 MB): http://abdiassadi.com/podcasts/abdi_assadi_meditation_09192011_v2.mp3 Or, you may →

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The following is an audio recording of a brief talk and group meditation that took place on 9.19.11 at at the Sri Ganesha Temple in NYC. In email or via RSS, you may use the following link to access/download the podcast directly to your computer (warning: approximately 4.08 MB): http://abdiassadi.com/podcasts/abdi_assadi_meditation_09192011.mp3 Or, you may access this →

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DUE TO A SCHEDULING CONFLICT AT THE TEMPLE, NEXT WEEK’S MEDITATION HAS BEEN POSTPONED BY ONE WEEK   Meditation on Monday September 19 at 8:00 PM Abdi is leading a group meditation at 430 Broome Street, 2nd Floor @ the corner of Crosby (SoHo, NYC) at the Ashtanga Yoga New York & Sri Ganesha Temple. →

In this moment, if our inner or outer life is not or has not been turned upside down, we are sleepwalking. We are just imitating some lame spiritual practice that is keeping our status quo. Self-hypnosis and denial can and do take many forms including spirituality. In matters of Self, culture is not our friend. →

We are a culture of addicts, and addiction comes in many forms. It’s not just about being powerless over certain substances or behaviors: addiction also masquerades as an obsession with one’s self and a disconnection with the world at large. This is our identification with the small “s” self, the ego shell that never feels →

Here is a piece originally titled “Remember Your Self” but renamed – without my involvement – by the editors of Huffington Post. We are living in such artificial times that simple and profound truths like Self have no pull and hence the cheesy re-title in an attempt to get attention. Not to mention the unfortunate →

Path of Glory – A Conversation with Abdi Assadi This week I spoke with Abdi Assadi, author of The Shadow on the Path about his book and his approach to healing. Let’s just say he’s not your baby boomer mother’s spiritual healer. JD: In your book, Shadows on the Path, you make the case that →

An Interview by Wolf Schneider for Munich’s Connection Spirit Magazine, June 2011 There can only be spiritual progress, if we confront our shadow, that part of the Soul which our ego does not want to see and acknowledge. This applies to nations as well as individuals. Iranian-born Abdi Assadi is a ruthless “exposer” of the →